Tiny Machine

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you are unable to see past your elementary understanding of why cis men have so much power over us and you will always, always, hurt queer people more than you'll ever deconstruct the patriarchy and male privilege in your spaces.

[ID: a comment from @forsetini that reads: People who say “oh well your agab determines what toxic gender roles you internalize” I’m afab but I ended up internalizing more toxic masculinity bullshit than anything because I’ve always known I wasn’t a woman. So please shut the fuck up, you’re making broad generalizations about people whose internal lives you know NOTHING about and trying to apply broad societal trends to individual people is a fucking fool’s errand because it’s always more complicated than tha”]

And there are several comments like this in the notes.

And it leaves no place for nonbinary people to be nonbinary.

And it leads to forcing all of us into a vague undefined concept of "male-aligned/female-aligned."

It's not a factory and human beings are not widgets. You do not get 'pressed' into a shape. People do not start out life as blank slates and we do not get programmed.

All people have an internal subjective experience: identity. You exist and you're real and who you are inside shapes how you see the world around you and how you take in the lessons that you're taught.

Trans people don't get socialized as their assigned gender. We get exposed to socialization that only recognizes cis people and we interpret it and come to understand it differently than cis people. People who don't acknowledge that socialization is as much about the internal subjective experience of the individual don't understand how socialization works.

Don't forget that biological essentialists, radfems, TERFs, and all kinds of other bigots are essentially ignorant jackasses who either can't or refuse to see how complex the world is. They invent simplistic stories about how people are and then assume that they're right to do so.

Behind The Curtain with: Matilda the Musical.

Some 2012 UK JCS fluff for you 💜